Water Flux and Amniotic Fluid Volume: Understanding Fetal Water Flow

Nephrology and Fluid/Electrolyte Physiology: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-19

  Beall, Marie H ^a   Van den Wijngaard, Jeroen ^b   Van Gemert, Martin ^b   Ross, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-3163-5.50007-5     Document Type: Chapter

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